“One falsehood spoils
a thousand truths.”
–
African Proverb
“Knowing what you cannot do is
more important than knowing what you can do.”
- Lucille Ball
“A new leader has to be able to
change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and
visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.”
– Warren Bennis
“That you may retain your
self-respect, it is better to displease the people by
doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please
them by doing what you know is wrong.”
– William J.H. Boetcker
“Leadership is understanding
people and involving them to help you do a job. That
takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity,
dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill,
implacability, as well as determination not to accept
failure.”
-Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
“Don’t go through life, grow
through life.”
- Eric Butterworth
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering
is optional.”
- M. Kathleen Casey
“Life is change. Growth is
optional. Choose wisely.”
- Karen Kaiser Clark
“An empowered organization is
one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill,
desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way
that leads to collective organizational success.”
- Stephen R. Covey
“Many of life’s failures are
people who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison
“The significant problems we
face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we
were at when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
“People are more easily led than
driven.”
- David Harold Fink
“All of the great leaders have
had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness
to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their
people in their time. This, and not much else, is the
essence of leadership.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
“ A person cannot do right in
one department of life while attempting to do wrong in
another department. Life is one indivisible whole.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Always be a first-rate version
of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of
somebody else.”
– Judy Garland
“Leadership is practiced not so
much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
- Harold Geneen
“Leadership has a harder job to
do than just choose sides. It must bring sides
together.”
- Jesse Jackson
“The trouble is, if you don't
risk anything, you risk even more.”
- Erica Jong
“The task of the leader is to
get his people from where they are to where they have
not been.”
- Henry Kissinger
“The quality of a leader is
reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's
“To lead people, walk beside
them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their
existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
‘We did it ourselves!’”
- Lao-tsu
“Leadership consists not in
degrees of technique but in traits of character; it
requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual
effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike
the burdens of self-restraint.”
- Lewis H. Lapham
“Nearly all men can stand
adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“The final test of a leader is
that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction
and will to carry on.”
- Walter J. Lippmann
“The quality of a person's life
is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence, regardless of their chosen field of
endeavor.”
-Vincent T. Lombardi
“Everything that is done in this
world is done by hope.”
– Martin Luther
“Never tell people how to do
things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity”
- George Patton
“Lead and inspire people. Don't
try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be
managed but people must be lead.”
- Ross Perot
“You may have afresh start any
moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure'
is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
- Mary Pickford
“You gain strength, courage and
confidence by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you
think you cannot do.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“When the effective leader is
finished with his work, the people say it happened
naturally.”
- Lao Tse
“In organizations, real power
and energy is generated through relationships. The
patterns of relationships and the capacities to form
them are more important than tasks, functions, roles,
and positions.”
- Margaret Wheatly |
